In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
Many Web information services utilize techniques of information extraction (IE) to collect important facts from the Web. To create more advanced services, one possible method is t...
In the third edition of WePS campaign we have undertaken the person name disambiguation problem referred to as a clustering task. Our aim was to make use of intrinsic link relation...
Elena Smirnova, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Brigitte T...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Abstract. Can we model the temporal evolution of topics in Web image collections? If so, can we exploit the understanding of dynamics to solve novel visual problems or improve reco...